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Album of the Day: Dent May, “Across the Multiverse”
In just one sentence on his new record Across The Multiverse, Los Angeles musician Dent May travels from Hollywood heroism to complete fatalism. Over a wash of bright piano, strings, and a delightful...
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The Best New Hip-Hop on Bandcamp: July 2017
This month’s selection of vital hip-hop projects covers albums inspired by the socially-conscious poetics of Gil Scott-Heron, plus beat tapes homaging the production genius of Prince Paul, and a...
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How Maximum Joy Helped Pioneer U.K.’s Famed Bristol Sound
In Simon Reynolds’s seminal book, Rip It Up And Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984, the author suggests punk, “had its most provocative repercussions long after its supposed demise.” If there was one...
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“The Five DIY Days of Milan” Festival Celebrates Punk and Activism
It’s a hot summer Sunday in Milan, the second biggest city in Italy. Looking for fresh air, tourists walk along the canals of the Navigli neighborhood, stopping by the stalls that fill the alleys. But...
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This Friday, Stand With Bandcamp in Support of Trans Rights
Bandcamp is a platform for artistic expression, and all manner of variance in experience and identity, including gender and sexuality, is welcome here. We support our LGBT+ users and staff, and we...
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Catching Up With The Telescopes, Underrated Influencers of Shoegaze
For 30 years, The Telescopes have existed on the outskirts of the U.K. pop scene, in a host of different forms. Founded by primary member Stephen Lawrie in 1987 as a way to channel his love for such...
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Album of the Day: Bjørn Torske & Prins Thomas, “Square One”
Norwegian space disco has long had a particular way of sounding both futuristic and fixated on vintage vibes, so it makes sense that a pioneer and an ambassador of the sound would come together to...
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Nawa Recordings Wants To Bridge A Gap Between The Arabic and Western World
In Arabic, the word “nawa” has multiple meanings. As a verb, it’s “to intend” or “to propose.” As a noun, it’s the distance between yourself and a loved one, or a place in which you long to be. “Nawa”...
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Det Svarta Landet and the Making of Dungeon Synth Mythology
Dungeon synth is a genre long rooted in isolation. In the 1990s, reclusive artists built reputations by releasing demo tapes and records on the fringes, but there wasn’t anything that resembled a...
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The Best Jazz on Bandcamp: July 2017
If there’s anything this month’s recommendations have in common, it’s their willingness to transcend the characteristics most often attributed to jazz. The month’s list is dominated by...
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Album of the Day: TRPL BLK & DJ Prince, “National Debt”
Gritty in its delivery, and sometimes lo-fi in its production, National Debt finds Detroit rapper-songwriter TRPL BLK and Long Island’s DJ Prince presenting a financial seminar of sorts. The artists...
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How Jason Furlow Became One of The Forefathers of Trip-Hop
Photo by Ed Marshall. Back in 1994, Jason Furlow was living in a tent he’d pitched in the middle of the sparsely-furnished loft he’d bought in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Inside, the lead vocalist for the...
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Jazz Pianist Jason Moran on Artistic Self-Determination
Pianist Jason Moran was signed to Blue Note Records for nearly two decades. He grew up in Houston, Texas, studied with famed jazz instrumentalist Jaki Byard in New York, and thus came into the orbit...
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Death Metal Bands in the Sonic Lineage of Incantation
Incantation by Scott Kinkade. By 1992, just about every major band from American death metal’s first wave had released at least one legendary album. Death, Morbid Angel, Cannibal Corpse, Autopsy,...
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Album of the Day: Terrace Martin Presents The Pollyseeds, “Sounds of Crenshaw...
Over the course of his career, multi-instrumentalist Terrace Martin has crafted rap beats for West Coast stalwarts Snoop Dogg and Kendrick Lamar, while also earning respect as a leader in L.A.’s jazz...
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Philipp Gorbachev Doesn’t “Give a Snare” About Playing by the Rules
Photo by Жора Сирота. Phillipp Gorbachev was born in Moscow, is the son of a race car driver, and trained to become a diplomat. He became an international DJ, producer, and musician instead. For the...
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A Guide to the the World’s Largest Goth Festival
Saigon Blue Rain I am in Stasi Museum Berlin on the last day of the world’s largest goth festival when a thunderstorm hits. A flock of goths flee under a set of identical black-peaked parasols...
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Over 200 Labels & Artists Join Us in Donating Friday’s Profits to the...
Over 200 artists and labels have joined us in donating their share of sales tomorrow to the Transgender Law Center. We’ve done our best to list them all here, but if you’re a label or artist who will...
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Album of the Day: Micronism, “Inside a Quiet Mind”
Trying to find out much about Micronism, aka Denver McCarthy, isn’t easy. The mysterious New Zealand electronic music act was part of a burgeoning ‘90s electronic scene in New Zealand after which he...
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Album of the Day: Girl Ray, “Earl Grey”
Songs that focus on the travails of adolescence are as old as pop music itself. Teen group Girl Ray’s debut Earl Grey takes on that time-honored trope by reaching beyond its years, finding a...
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